I am a Research Associate at the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. I recently defended my PhD at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Berlin. I use computational methods to study global authoritarianism, human rights advocacy, and political communication on social media.

My research investigates the constraints and opportunities of social media for contentious politics. In my dissertation entitled Platformed Power Plays: Authoritarian Adaptations in Foreign Social Media Spaces, I focus on how high-capacity authoritarian regimes and their supporters use social media to exert their influence and limit dissenting voices—even on foreign platforms where their governments do not have direct control over platform governance.

In a past life, I was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia and happened to get a BSc in Economics and Asian Studies from Tulane University after living in New Orleans for four years.